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US Presidents and Personal Finance

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I wonder if that could be part of our national debt problem. He ended up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and only salvaged his estate by selling (after his death) his civil war memoirs. Read more about this on Yahoo Finance article The 10 Richest U.S. Grant also did poorly in personal finance. Presidents.

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Investment Methods

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

My copy has a copyright date of 2008. Author of Forbes article Why You Should Take Joel Greenblatt’s ‘Magic Formula’ Stocks Seriously , Charles Sizemore thinks it works, others don’t. I pick up a lot of them at garage sales for 25 cents to a $1. Greenblatt maintains a web site Magicformulainvesting.com.

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